WSJ/ A. CAMPO-FLORES
WSJ: "When he was president of Venezuela, Carlos Andrés Pérez (above) kept the two families he fathered—one with his wife, the other with a mistress—in separate spheres. Both sides say they maintained a tense silence—never visiting, speaking to, or even acknowledging each other.
Then Mr. Pérez died at the age of 88 last December, and decades of simmering resentment spewed forth.
Now the families are clashing in a courtroom battle here over where to lay him to rest.
The wife, Blanca Rodríguez de Pérez, wants to inter him in Venezuela, which he led during two terms, from 1974 to 1979 and from 1989 to 1993."
AND: "The mistress, Cecilia Matos, prefers Miami, where she lived with Mr. Pérez for most of the last decade, until he passed away.
She claims Mr. Pérez said he never wanted to be buried in Venezuela as long as his nemesis, President Hugo Chávez, was in charge."
Thus began a long drawn-out battle...over where he would be buried.
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